Email From FIVE re Freesat
 

Date: 29th October 2008


Dear xxxx

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Five on Freesat. We
apologise for the delay in responding.

Although we are planning to make Five available on the new Freesat
platform launched by the BBC and ITV, we are unable to confirm when we
will be joining the service at the moment. We do hope that it will be
later this year and will make a public announcement soon.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we are unable to
make our digital channels FIVER and Five US available on the platform.

If there is anything further we can help you with, please do not
hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your interest in Five.

Yours sincerely

Ian
VIEWER ADVISOR


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Email From FIVE re Freesat
 

"Commander Gideon" wrote in message
...

See Channel 5 thread on Digital Spy Freesat Forum

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...=918127&page=4


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Email From FIVE re Freesat
 

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:15:15 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:

Date: 29th October 2008


Dear xxxx

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Five on Freesat. We
apologise for the delay in responding.

Although we are planning to make Five available on the new Freesat
platform launched by the BBC and ITV, we are unable to confirm when we
will be joining the service at the moment. We do hope that it will be
later this year and will make a public announcement soon.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we are unable to
make our digital channels FIVER and Five US available on the platform.

Rejoice. Good news is a rare event in these times of doom and gloom.

Email From FIVE re Freesat
 

Oh I do not agree, if freesat was the only game in town for me, I'd be a bit
miffed at no five us. Often the first run of us series do not have AD and
this seems to appear mysteriously on re runs on five us.

Brian

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"Scott" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:15:15 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:

Date: 29th October 2008


Dear xxxx

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Five on Freesat. We
apologise for the delay in responding.

Although we are planning to make Five available on the new Freesat
platform launched by the BBC and ITV, we are unable to confirm when we
will be joining the service at the moment. We do hope that it will be
later this year and will make a public announcement soon.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of narrow beam capacity, we are unable to
make our digital channels FIVER and Five US available on the platform.

Rejoice. Good news is a rare event in these times of doom and gloom.

FTA Five now Live
 

Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

FTA Five now Live
 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

FTA Five now Live
 

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

That's good news,now all the terrestrial channels are available on DSAT free
to air!

FTA Five now Live
 

On 3 Nov, 22:44, J G Miller wrote:

Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404


Provider BSkyB eh? Is that a Sky uplinked/controlled transponder then?
I was under the impression from another thread that C5 was joining a
BBC transponder. (Perhaps it's BBC via BSkyB...)

FTA Five now Live
 

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:48:38 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:


"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

That's good news,now all the terrestrial channels are available on DSAT free
to air!

So can I get that on my Panny Freesat telly? It can receive
non-Freesat FTA channels too.


Marky P.

FTA Five now Live
 

"Marky P" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:48:38 -0000, "Commander Gideon"
wrote:


"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember J G Miller saying
something like:


Five transmitted FTA has now been spotted in the wild.

From SES Astra 2D at 28,5° East, MPEG-2 QPSK

frequency : 10,773 GHz
polarization: horizontal
symbol rate: 22000
fec: 5/6

name: 6335
provider: BSkyB
video pid: 5400
audio pid: 5401
teletext: 5404

Just found that five minutes ago.

That's good news,now all the terrestrial channels are available on DSAT
free
to air!

So can I get that on my Panny Freesat telly? It can receive
non-Freesat FTA channels too.

I don't think it is on the Freesat EPG yet but if you can manually tune it
on your box then it is labelled as 6335!

FTA Five now Live
 

On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:27 -0800, Mizter T wrote:
Provider BSkyB eh? Is that a Sky uplinked/controlled transponder
then?

That piece of information is from the Windoze program DVB "show station
details".

I saw somewhere that although some stations are specifically "Freesat"
variants, B$kyB is still involved in the EPG aspects.

I was under the impression from another thread that C5 was joining
a BBC transponder. (Perhaps it's BBC via BSkyB...)

You are indeed correct because `five' is now on the transponder and
frequency which used to be occupied not so long ago by BBC News 24.

FTA Five now Live
 

On 5 Nov, 16:21, J G Miller wrote:

On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:27 -0800, Mizter T wrote:

* * Provider BSkyB eh? Is that a Sky uplinked/controlled transponder
* * then?

That piece of information is from the Windoze program DVB "show station
details".

I saw somewhere that although some stations are specifically "Freesat"
variants, B$kyB is still involved in the EPG aspects.


Interesting. I do recall glancing through a BBC R&D presentation about
Freesat (probably something that someone on here had linked to) which
stressed the utmost importance of the new Freesat EPG system not
interfering with the pre-existing Sky EPG, which might explain why
Freesat only channels still have a BSkyB identifier. Of course in the
instance of Five the same channel will be used for both Sky and
Freesat EPGs.

FTA Five now Live
 

Mizter T wrote:
:
: I saw somewhere that although some stations are specifically "Freesat"
: variants, B$kyB is still involved in the EPG aspects.

: Interesting. I do recall glancing through a BBC R&D presentation about
: Freesat (probably something that someone on here had linked to) which
: stressed the utmost importance of the new Freesat EPG system not
: interfering with the pre-existing Sky EPG, which might explain why
: Freesat only channels still have a BSkyB identifier.

Freesat run their own "EPG transponder" but also need to add limited EPG data
for the next few hours to *every* transponder. They use Sky hardware to do
this (as this is already in place to do exactly the same for the Sky EPG)